Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

The story of how humans first entered the Americas is among archaeology’s most persistent puzzles. For much of the 20th ...

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...

Dave’s Hot Chicken opening update; media rep lists Village openings Q1 2026. Village at Tacoma Mall opened Shake Shack and Lovesac in November 2025. Multiple dining and retail brands plan ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Cooperation is fundamental to human societies. Building on the hypothesis that heightened environmental variability in Africa during the Middle Stone Age influenced behavioral evolution ...

Paul Salopek is a National Geographic explorer retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community’s best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While ...

The origin story of the human species is far from set in stone. Paul Salopek sits with a sculpture of a Homo erectus reading a book at the Chinese Academy of Science. China has become a hotbed of ...

Around 400,000 years ago, a band of Neanderthals, or their ancestors, in Britain struck flint with pyrite and built a fire repeatedly in the same spot. Archaeologists studying the site think it is the ...

When scientists recently unearthed ancient skeletons in Colombia, DNA tests should’ve linked them to someone—anyone—alive today. Instead, they found a lineage with no clear connection to the rest of ...